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Crisps (fries) 'not a treat' for children
 Crisps: no longer very special?

Children's diets are now so poor that more than two-thirds of them do not think fast food is a treat, British Heart Foundation research suggests.
A poll of 500 youngsters also found that 82% do not think of crisps as anything special. More than half do not consider sweets a treat.

The charity wants the government to ban the marketing of what it describes as junk food to children.

These messages were undermining what "normal" food was, it claimed.

"The infestation of artery-clogging foods that make up our children's everyday diets is putting their hearts and long-term health at risk,"
said BHF Director of Prevention and Care, Dr Mike Knapton...MORE